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The public health impact of the arrival of a large number of job-seekers in one small town. As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or Archive.org itself. Thanks. :) Topics: WWII, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- United States, Public Health, World...

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No National Archives description. National Archives Identifier: 91085 "Note: All rights were conveyed to the U.S. Government on Nov. 28, 1962. However, proprietary rights or existing copyright in footage obtained from other sources by Ford Motor Company may exist." As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or... Topics: WWII, World War, 1939-1945, Ford Motor Company, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- United States,...

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National Archives description "This film shows a carrier, mount, and other equipment in a gun factory." National Archives Identifier: 2517055 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or Archive.org itself. Thanks. :) Topics: WWII, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- United States, World War II, World...

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National Archives description "Instructional film: shows how a supervisor trains a blind worker to operate a drill press." National Archives Identifier: 1262 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or Archive.org itself. Thanks. Topics: WWII, World War, 1939-1945, Blind -- Employment, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- United States,...

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Silent film, circa 1942, of hand grenade assembly line at a Ford plant. This MAY be the American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Company , which contracted with FoMoCo to produce hand grenades. National Archives Identifier: 91110 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or Archive.org itself. Thanks. :) Topics: Machine Art, World War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment And Supplies, Grenades, World War, 1939-1945, Ford...

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National Archives description: "United Automobile Workers (UAW) are temporarily inducted into the Army for training at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, with the 83rd Infantry Division. Various phases of the training are shown. The workers return to their jobs." National Archives Identifier: 24475 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your... Topics: WWII, United Automobile Workers (A.F. of L.), World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- United States,...

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"Today women -- hundreds of thousands of them -- are at work in war industries. Unafraid of the hard, tedious, and dangerous jobs, they are working in shipyards, in aircraft and instrument factories, in arsenals and steel mills. World War II, with its great influx of women into jobs previously marked 'men only', presents both management and labor with many new and puzzling problems. Employers may benefit by reading of the successful experiences of others in employing women, and the... Topics: World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- War...

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"Those of us who had the privilege of entering these plants, of helping to turn out bombers and fighters, will never forget, any more than the boys on the battle front will forget, the satisfaction of knowing that we stood shoulder to shoulder with other women, willing to work night and day that our children might live in a free country...." Digitized by Google. Topics: WWII, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Employment -- United States, World War...

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"This sound recording captures a speech by Mary Anderson, Director of the Labor Women's Bureau, on American and British women's contribution to the war effort. She discussed women's pre - war difficulties getting into industry, their usefulness once employed, and the types of jobs women took. Anderson also urged equal wages for women in war plants." National Archives Identifier: 1772533 Topics: WWII, Old Time Radio, World War, 1939-1945, OTR, World War II: Homefront, World War, 1939-1945 --...

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Not the greatest film quality. National Archives description: "Part 1 shows details in the manufacture of gas masks at an unidentified factory. Part 2 shows tests of the half-track T-16 and motor carriage T-32 at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. Part 3, tank obstacles are constructed from natural materials at Ft. Belvoir, Va." National Archives Identifier: 24424 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these... Topics: Film Bulletin, World War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment And Supplies, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work --...

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WILLOW RUN REFERENCE BOOK (Third Edition) Compiled by Members of Plant Guide Staff February 1, 1945 "EXTRACT FROM ESPIONAGE ACT The enclosed Information is strictly confidential and should be regarded as such. Section 31. Unlawfully obtaining or permitting to be obtained information affecting National Defense; or (D) whoever, lawfully or unlawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch photograph,... Topics: WWII, World War, 1939-1945, Willow Run Industrial Complex, World War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment And...

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United States Naval Photographic Center film # 2641. National Archives description "1) MS Looking into the barrel of 16" gun, showing the rifling. 2) MLS Crane moving the barrel of 16" gun. 3) MS Gun barrel coming out of furnace and being forged; hot steel drops off of mold. 4) DS Looking into the shop; various sizes of guns. 5) MS Various operations showing pots with molten metal and throwing off molten metal. 6) LS Men welding on gun barrel. 7) MCU Small billet of steel being... Topics: WWII, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Navy, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- United States,...

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In The Service of America - Liberator Bomber Production ca.1944, no sound. Ford Motor Company film of production at the Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. From what I understand, Michigan had 13% of the U.S. population in WWII, yet created more than 1/3 of the materiel output. Also see @ Internet Archive: Women on the Warpath, ca. 1943 color film of Willow Run plant. Maleski-Doris-veteransHistoryProject Veteran's History Project "Tanks are mighty fine things" (1946) book (ebook)... Topics: WWII, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- United States, B-24 Bomber,...

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Industrial accidents, and their prevention. As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or Archive.org itself. Thanks. :) Topics: Occupational health, Accidents, Occupational -- prevention & control -- United States, World...

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"Those of us who had the privilege of entering these plants, of helping to turn out bombers and fighters, will never forget, any more than the boys on the battle front will forget, the satisfaction of knowing that we stood shoulder to shoulder with other women, willing to work night and day that our children might live in a free country...." Digitized by Google. Topic: WWII,World War, 1939-1945,World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Employment -- United States,World War...

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1942 Swift Meat Comic book. "Contributed by Swift & Company to America's All-Out War Effort through the National Nutrition Program. OFFICE OF DEFENSE HEALTH AND WELFARE SERVICES Comic characters donated by King Features Syndicate." Digitized by Government Comics . Topics: Comic Book, WWII, World War II, World War, 1939-1945 -- Food Supply, World War, 1939-1945, World...

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"Today women -- hundreds of thousands of them -- are at work in war industries. Unafraid of the hard, tedious, and dangerous jobs, they are working in shipyards, in aircraft and instrument factories, in arsenals and steel mills. World War II, with its great influx of women into jobs previously marked 'men only', presents both management and labor with many new and puzzling problems. Employers may benefit by reading of the successful experiences of others in employing women, and the... Topic: World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States,World War, 1939-1945,World War, 1939-1945 -- War...

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1944 U.S. War Department film #25, The Hidden Army . National Archives description "On U.S. women in war work. Reel 1 dramatizes the Nazi concept of U.S. women as decadent playgirls, unfit for working. Women weld airplanes and landing barges, install wiring in planes, and inspect shells and radio tubes. Reel 2 shows nursery schools and personal services (banking, beauty shops, etc.) established in war plants to ease the burden on working women. Women cite their reasons for producing war... Topics: WWII, World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 --...

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No description at the National Archives but this is silent footage of Ford Motor Company's production of Gliders and their testing, circa 1942. As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or Archive.org itself. Thanks. :) National Archives Identifier: 91462 Topics: Ford Motor Company, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- United States,...

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"Madam: I have the honor to transmit a report analyzing both broadly and in detail the widening field of responsibility on the part of the industrial nurse and the vital importance of her being informed as to working conditions, actual and desirable; occupational hazards and accident prevention; plant service and food facilities; the personal problems that lower women's efficiency on the job; and other developments of the war years. It is being increasingly recognized by employers,... Topic: WWII,World War, 1939-1945 -- Hazardous Occupations -- United States,World War, 1939-1945 -- Women...

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Keep 'em Rolling was a Mutual Broadcasting System show that featured a play each week. Time Magazine said it was sponsored by the Office for Emergency Management (link http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,795612,00.html behind a paywall but you can see part of it). Keep 'em Rolling is also mentioned in this ebook on Archive.org, Radio in wartime: http://archive.org/details/radioinwartime00dryerich ...but any typo or error is mine. :) Topics: World War II: Homefront, World War, 1939-1945, Anna Neagle, Kenny Baker, Charles Bickford, Bea...

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Video Transcript for Archival Research Catalog (ARC) Identifier 38911 " U.S. Bombers Blast Japanese Bases – 1942 Text: U.S. BOMBERS BLAST JAP BASES Narrators: American bombers assemble at a secret airdrome somewhere along the northern tip of Australia. The order of the day: attack. General Royce and General Scanlon in command. One by one the huge ships take off. Weeks of planning, months of training, now put to the test. Fast pursuit planes roar down the strip and zoom aloft at... Topics: WWII, World War II, Angels Of Corregidor, Newsreel, Seaplanes -- United States, Martin airplanes,...

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"Madam: I have the honor to transmit a report analyzing both broadly and in detail the widening field of responsibility on the part of the industrial nurse and the vital importance of her being informed as to working conditions, actual and desirable; occupational hazards and accident prevention; plant service and food facilities; the personal problems that lower women's efficiency on the job; and other developments of the war years. It is being increasingly recognized by employers,... Topics: WWII, World War, 1939-1945 -- Hazardous Occupations -- United States, World War, 1939-1945 -- Women...

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"This movie depicts construction and start of production in the Chrysler Tank Arsenal." Also see "Tanks are mighty fine things" (1946) https://archive.org/details/tanmightyfi00stou book (ebook) about the Chrysler Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant (DATP). As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or Archive.org itself.... Topics: Tanks (Military science), Detroit, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- United States, World War II,...

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National Archives description: "Shows the ceremonies for the presentation of an 'E' award. Marching troops and a band accompany the presentation which is made by Maj. Gen. Charles T. Harris, Jr. Gov. Herbert R. O'Connor and Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord speak. The ceremony is ended by raising the "E" flag." National Archives Identifier: 24583 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files,... Topics: Film Bulletin, Harris, Charles T. (Charles Tillman), 1884-1961, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work --...

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"Wise management provides working conditions that will reduce fatigue to a minimum and keep workers as close as possible to peak production throughout the day." Digitized by Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/ Topics: World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States, World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Employment --...

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"Wise management provides working conditions that will reduce fatigue to a minimum and keep workers as close as possible to peak production throughout the day." Digitized by Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/ Topic: World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States,World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Employment --...

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National Archives description: "Part 1, women test war equipment at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. They load guns, test tractors and other carriers, operate antiaircraft guns, and work at technical jobs relating to tests. Part 2 demonstrates the Army's mobile field bakery. Ingredients are measured and mixed. Bread is baked and served to troops." National Archives Identifier: 24438 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or... Topics: Film Bulletin, World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Employment -- United States, World War, 1939-1945...

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National Archives description: "The NYA trains girls to sew, to make military and civil defense posters and signs, to prepare food, and to assist in hospital work (feeding and massaging patients, sterilizing instruments, making x-ray pictures, etc.). Women learn to operate machine tools (drill presses, lathes, etc) in an airplane plant, to weld sheet metal, to solder and drill radio parts, and to inspect finished work. Eleanor Roosevelt introduces and narrates the film." National... Topics: WWII, World War, 1939-1945, World War II, World War II: Homefront, WWII In Color, World War,...

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National Archives description: "Civilians, soldiers, and guests of honor gather in the post recreation hall. Col. H.M. Black, Gen. Milton A. Reckord, and Sen. Millard E. Tydings speak. Gen. William N. Porter presents the 'E' Award." National Archives Identifier: 24585 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or Archive.org... Topics: Film Bulletin, Reckord, Milton A. (Milton Atchison), 1879-1975, World War II, Tydings, Millard E....